Subject: bedelu question marks
Date: Jul 06, 2001 @ 12:40
Author: Peter Smaardijk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Peter=20Smaardijk?= <smaardijk@yahoo.com>)
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This is the bedelu tripoint. Not really a tripoint, because in this
area Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, and the Luxembourgo-German
condominium meet. I still don’t know whether the Rippach, or Reibaach,
i.e. the small stream that is the belu boundary and which enters the
Our at this point, is a condominium as well, because it used to be the
continuation of the Prussian-Dutch border (the Belgian territory here
was part of Prussia) when the borders were drawn. So that could be a
Belgo-Luxembourgish condominium! On the other hand, it is such a small
stream (and when I visited it no more than a pathetic trickle), that it
would surprise me to find its waters to be a condominium.

The first picture is taken from Germany. The bridge is between Belgium
and Germany. You can see the boundary marker on the German side in the
foreground. The Rippach enters the Our between the bridge and the tree
on the left, although you can’t see much of it because of the
vegetation and dead wood that has been accumulated here.

The second picture gives a closer look of the Rippach. It is taken from
the bridge. On the left is the Luxembourg marker, and on the extreme
right/bottom of the picture the one in Belgium can be seen. The one in
Luxembourg is marked B and has a right angle on top. The one in Belgium
is marked L and has some very obscure lines (four lines, as I recall,
but I can’t make it out on the picture) on top of it.

The third and fourth pictures are close-ups of the B and L markers. The
L marker (the one in Belgium) I photographed from the spot where the B
marker (in Luxembourg) is, so across the Rippach.

I would really like to know how all boundaries are situated in this
bedelu area. I can’t figure it out from what I’ve seen on the ground.
Are there others that have ideas or even facts about this?

Peter S.

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